Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, NV has a D safety grade (34/100) with a violent crime rate of 430 per 100,000, 22% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · very large city
At 1,716,565 residents, Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department is a very large city: FBI UCR Table 8 rates (per 100,000) here are read against NV and U.S. averages before the offense-family breakdown.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, NV carries a PlainCrime D safety grade with violent crime 22% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, NV shows violent crime at 429.8 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,622.7 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 22% above the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade D from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
Share of the state cohort
The 52,399 Part I offenses reported here are 66.4% of the 78,882 reported across all 11 comparable Nevada cities in 2024. A city this large moves the statewide municipal total on its own, so state-level changes should be read against its population of 1,716,565 rather than as a uniform shift.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department's 429.8 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Elko (397.9), Sparks (394.4), North Las Vegas (388.9), Reno (529.6). These are same-year agency submissions that pass the same completeness screen, not a claim that the cities have identical conditions. They make the cohort position above checkable against named records instead of a generic state average.
Position in the state cohort
At 429.8 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department ranks 4 of 11 — above 7 of the 10 other Nevada cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +9.7% against the cohort median of 391.7. Cities that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 14.1% of the 52,399 Part I offenses reported in Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department for 2024, against a median of 17.2% across comparable Nevada cities — a gap of 3.1 points. Offense mix is shaped by which agencies report and how incidents are classified as well as by the underlying offenses, so it describes the reported record rather than a settled difference in conditions.
Property counts dominate Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department's FBI UCR Table 8 municipal row. Per-100,000 rates use the reporting-year population on that row; cities that fail the completeness test stay out of rate rankings. A citywide figure rarely describes any single neighbourhood inside the municipal boundary.
On a very large city row, these are citywide reported offense totals - not neighbourhood advice. Conditions vary by place and time; reporting rates differ across jurisdictions.
Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department leans on larceny-theft at 51% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,346.
Violent offenses are only 14% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (when validated); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
| Offense | Count | Rate /100K |
|---|---|---|
| Property Crime | 45,021 | 2622.7 |
| Larceny-Theft | 26,856 | 1564.5 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 10,243 | 596.7 |
| Burglary | 7,922 | 461.5 |
| Arson | 196 | 11.4 |
| Violent Crime | 7,378 | 429.8 |
| Aggravated Assault | 5,273 | 307.2 |
| Robbery | 1,113 | 64.8 |
| Rape | 886 | 51.6 |
| Murder | 106 | 6.2 |
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Nevada cities closest to Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department in population. Their populations run from 9,661 to 343,619, against 1,716,565 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department sits at 429.8/100K violent (grade D); the Nevada cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department at 429.8/100K violent and 2,622.7/100K property - matched below outside Nevada (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
429.8/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
2,622.7/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department reported 7,378 violent crimes and 45,021 property crimes, for a total of 52,399 reported offenses.
The most common crime type in Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department is larceny-theft, accounting for 51.3% of all reported crimes (26,856 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department's rates come from the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, CIUS Table 8, vintage 2024.
Incomplete reporters stay out of rate rankings. Cross-check population with Census ACS; state UCR programs for statewide context. Primary verify links: FBI.gov UCR, Census QuickFacts.
Disclaimer (very large city): informational crime rates only - not legal, insurance, or personal-safety advice. Source: FBI UCR. Ask a qualified professional before acting.
Large-city rate methodology for how Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department's very large city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, NV rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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Every figure on PlainCrime is rendered directly from FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) source data, no number is typed in by an editor. Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department is scored here as a very large city UCR reporter (1,716,565 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.